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===2020s=== In February 2020, go-go was named the "official music" of Washington, D.C., in a unanimous vote by the [[D.C. Council]] following the #DontMuteDC movement.<ref name="Lang">{{cite news |last1=Lang |first1=Marissa J. |title=Go-go is signed into law as the official music of D.C. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/its-official-go-go-music-signed-into-law-as-the-designated-music-of-dc/2020/02/19/42a4ef62-52a1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=February 20, 2020 |language=en |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220002940/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/its-official-go-go-music-signed-into-law-as-the-designated-music-of-dc/2020/02/19/42a4ef62-52a1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=April 10, 2020|title=One year later, #DontMuteDC advocates for financial support of go-go music|url=https://wtop.com/dc/2020/04/one-year-later-dontmutedc-advocates-for-financial-support-of-go-go-music/|access-date=November 30, 2020|website=WTOP|language=en|archive-date=August 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814003553/https://wtop.com/dc/2020/04/one-year-later-dontmutedc-advocates-for-financial-support-of-go-go-music/|url-status=live}}</ref> Go-go historians and local activists have advocated for city investment in go-go tourism as a result of financial challenges due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Washington, D.C.|COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref name=":0" /> "In Washington, D.C., the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer of 2020 often included go-go bands performing on truck beds to thousands of onlookers as a highly visible and aural political symbol that could only happen in the capital of the United States."<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/35342|title=Kip Lornell - Review of Ross Cole, The Folk: Music, Modernism, and the Political Imagination|first=Kip|last=Lornell|date=September 25, 2022|journal=Journal of Folklore Research Reviews|accessdate=March 11, 2023|via=scholarworks.iu.edu}}</ref> On August 22, 2021, it was announced that the DC Public Library's Go-Go Archive had acquired the photography catalog of 1,956 photographic images shot by photographer Chip Py who spent ten years photographing the DC Go-Go scene and was one of Chuck Brown's photographers for the archival and documented history of go-go. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dcist.com/story/21/08/17/dcpl-go-go-photo-collection-chuck-brown-band-rare-essence/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817190648/https://dcist.com/story/21/08/17/dcpl-go-go-photo-collection-chuck-brown-band-rare-essence/|url-status=live|archive-date=August 17, 2021|title=A New Photo Collection Adds Nearly 2,000 Images To The D.C. Public Library's Go-Go Archive|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref> On February 14, 2022, the book ''DC Go-Go: Ten Years Backstage'' by photographer Chip Py was published by The History Press. The 208-page book features 251 of Py's photographs of all the bands, legends and fans shot at the go-go as well as nine chapters about the origins, the culture, the legends, the bands, the culture, #dontmutedc and how Go-Go became the official music of Washington, D.C.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467150538|title=DC Go-Go: Ten Years Backstage by Chip Py, Foreword by Greg Boyer | The History Press Books|accessdate=March 11, 2023}}</ref> In 2024 the [[Go-Go Museum|Go-Go Museum and Cafe]] was opened, in [[Anacostia]], Washington, D.C.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/18/go-go-museum-anacostia-opening/</ref> Gogoโs sound has also continued to advance with bands and artists fusing the sound into their own styles. Tone P, Drew Keys, Eddie Beat, Chop on da Beat, and Carter Beat are a few that have all made their own versions of an electronic style of gogo similar to what Wale used in his career. There has also been an emergence of rock fused gogo played by bands such as Black Alley, Tone Pโs Band Tha Carry Out, Breezy Supreme, and HUE.
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